It is mostly about stories on the Korean people’s struggles against the U. S. bases in Korea. Hope many of you find some clues and sources here. Please just be kind and fair to the source.많은 분들께서 여기에서 단서들과 자료들을 찾길 바랍니다. 다만 단서와 자료의 기원에 대해 친절하고 공정하게 표기해 주시면 감사하겠읍니다.

I am sending this letter to you with much concern. I ask that you read each line with great attention. I understand that there are plans to construct a naval base on Jeju Island by the year 2014, specifically in the Geongjeong village. For the past several months I have read online and in local newspapers of the struggle these people have gone through in order to get out their message. They have been arrested while demonstrating peacefully, they have gone on hunger strikes, they have begged with their hearts, their tears and time. A message that begs for you, the central government, to hear that Jeju, and Geongjeong is not the place for a naval base facility. As a citizen of this world, I beg that you hear that no place is in need of another military base facility. Jeju promotes itself as an island of peace and everything about a base yields opposing beliefs. We live in a world that has put military defense on the forefront in regards of protection. People side with the increase in militarization in defense of arguments that stress the importance of deterrence, when in reality each effort is a development towards our own destruction.

The construction of a naval base on Jeju Island would be detrimental to the environment and community. People of Guam, the Philippines, and Okinawa recently visited Jeju to tell stories of the negative influence the military bases have brought to their communities. Pollution, greater divides socially and economically, taxation, rise in the cost of living but not in the wage, and greedy land consumption.

Aegis destroyer ships equipped with missile defense weaponry harbored on the shores of Jeju would inevitably mark the island as a target in case of war or conflict. The concrete poured to protect these ships of inevitable destruction will destroy the precious life of the environment it replaces.

In the Gangjeong village where a peaceful and quiet life has been enjoyed with the background of Halla Mt., if the naval base is constructed, the sea where our ancestors have lived and where we would inherit to our descendents would be displaced with the deep black naval vessels & aircraft carriers; the quiet Gangjeong port would be filled with military vessels; the Jeju Island, Island of Peace would be defined as the first bombing target from the hostile countries nearby; then not to mention the naval vessel, but all the things including the Gangjeong village and lives designated by UNESCO would disappear forever, by the pouring bombs. (arbitrary translation)

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The site is managed by an artist living in the South Korea. The photo in the profile is the children in Osan, near the Pyeongtaek where the planned US military base hub in the north east Asia and a large US air base exists. They are the children of a teacher who manages the Children Peace School there. As a part of the class programs, the children in the class drew and wrote in a cloth, their wishes of the peaceful unification of Korea some day.